Sunday, December 16, 2012

The Best Tree Of All -- Chapter 2

Chapter 2

The Higgins’
Hate

As far as
time went, the line of the Olders had a unsettled dispute against the Higgins
family. The Olders had always come first in everything. Little Mary Beth’s
Great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great Grandfather, Erwin Older, had
been the first in the town that held Erwindoll Manor, the still-standing residence
of every Older generation (except for the very first) up to date, to wear
socks. Elphaba Higgins wore them a mere day next, but nobody remembered her.
Dating back to Native American time, Mausi Hunt and William Alcott Older, the
original Olders, had taught lacrosse to one hundred orphans before Yuma Nez and
Elise Blackwell had even heard of it. And now, today, the newest generation of
the Olders, Little Mary Beth, had never met Harrison Higgins, her official
rival, in her life until one day at Church…